We help SMEs raise and grow, while giving investors access to businesses shaping a stronger, more sustainable Southeast Asia.
Bank loans can take months. Venture capital costs equity. Syleum offers another route: private debt that funds growth without giving up ownership or control. We structure the deal and manage the raise from start to finish.
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Access a curated pipeline of structured private credit deals across the region, including opportunities that fall outside traditional bank underwriting. Yields, tenors and structures are tailored to institutional and accredited investor mandates, with compliance handled from start to finish.
Invest in SMEsRegulation, market infrastructure and institutional adoption are converging, creating a clearer path from private issuance to compliant secondary liquidity.
Establishing the foundations of digital liquidity. Regulated stablecoins are the new financial plumbing for the digital economy.
Creating legal certainty and market infrastructure. Clear rules and defined jurisdiction protect investors.
Modernising market infrastructure for digital assets. Industry rails are adapting as these assets move to the financial core.
Every Syleum mandate is built around revenue-generating companies advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, from food and health to clean energy and climate resilience.
Cold-chain and food infrastructure that reduces waste, strengthens supply and improves food security across emerging markets.
Modern nutrition and lifestyle brands improving everyday health outcomes across South-East Asia.
Rooftop and distributed solar finance that puts clean generation in reach of households and small businesses.
Verifiable carbon removal and biochar projects with traceable, measurable climate impact.
Today the people who deploy capital, the people who structure deals and the people who actually operate the business are three different teams with three different incentives. Nothing ties them together.
Syleum brings capital, advisory and operations into one SDG-aligned mandate, from origination through tokenised issuance and post-issuance liquidity.
SMEs face significant bottlenecks when trying to secure capital and grow using traditional pathways.
SMEs funding gap amounts to 5 trillion annually1
of SMEs said access to funding is a key concern2
Breakthrough innovation originates from SMEs
6 weeks.
What might take a bank a quarter, we close in a sprint. Four virtues make that possible.
Strategically positioned in Singapore, in the world's most dynamic economic region.
We prioritise revenue-generating businesses aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, reinforcing sustainability as our focus.
As experienced founders, we bring hard-won operational knowledge directly to the founders we back.
Compliant on-chain infrastructure supports issuance, reporting and approved transfers, creating a path to secondary liquidity.
Modelling, structuring, term sheet negotiation, legal review, covenants. The senior bench you would expect from a top tier bank, sized to an SME's reality.
Modelling, structuring, term sheet negotiation, legal review, covenants. The senior bench you would expect from a top tier bank, sized to an SME's reality.
Senior debt, mezzanine, working capital lines, structured credit and hybrids. We build the instrument that fits your business, not the one our balance sheet prefers.
Smart contracts handle issuance, payments and reporting automatically. Your investors get clarity. Your finance team gets a clean ledger. Auditors get what they need.
We administer the financing through its life. When an investor wants out and another wants in, approved trading channels make that orderly.
Adrien · Founder of Circonomy
Circonomy is rebuilding the back end of retail in Southeast Asia. Returns, refurbishment and resale handled through one platform, so brands can stop writing inventory off and start running a real second-life channel.
Circular commerce infrastructure for the region's largest retailers.
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McKinsey frames sustainable and inclusive growth not as a trade-off but as an opportunity — aligning closely with the efficiency, transparency and inclusion thesis behind digital finance.
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Deloitte South-East Asia's 2025 impact report reads as a market signal: AI, digital transformation and sustainability are now mainstream strategic priorities.
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DTCC will connect its tokenisation service to the Stellar public blockchain — a major step toward an interoperable, multi-chain future for regulated assets.
Read moreIf you're an entrepreneur, see how we structure and run a raise alongside you. If you're an investor, see how SDG-screened mandates move from origination to tokenisation and secondary liquidity.
